Author Archives: Sara Lenzi

About Sara Lenzi

Sara Lenzi è cresciuta nelle Alpi dove gli antenati tzigani dell'est si stabilirono tanto tanto tempo fa...stanziale controvoglia, non hai mai accettato che "1:0= non si può fare", nè le più raffinate spiegazioni del liceo che introducevano la nozione di infinito. Un'idea, quest'ultima, che da bambina la faceva piangere e alla quale da donna adulta risponde praticando l'epochè. Degli studi filosofici conserva in questo momento un camice bianco d'ospedale, e di quelli musicali, tutto il resto.

How to fall in love with football for its sound: a sound ethnography

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Sound designers do it different, we all know that. And Italians love football, it’s another dogma that we do not doubt upon.

But when I met Davide Tidoni and his project called The Sound of Normalization I thought that, well…this was really a different way to love football and work with sound at the same time. I wanted to know more about it and I’m sure you want to know more, too….

Since 2002 Davide is investigating the football supporters subculture, dominated by the use of sound as a real weapon. He documented all his work recording the football chants and organized sounds during football matches and here what he told us about his amazing field recording experience.

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Netmage11 International Live Media Fest

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The 11th edition of the Netmage festival – the International Live Media Fest held in the cool frame of the Palazzo Re Enzo in downtown Bologna, Italy – will take place in January, on the 20th-21st-22nd.

This year edition will focus on cinema and the experimental scena between the moving image and sound. The concept will be – as the festival tradition is – performed live by a number of artists coming from all over Europe, the US, and South america.

For more info and reservation follow the site.

And do not miss the preview videos on Vimeo!

An interview with Hugo Verweij – 5 questions to the man behind the 5 questions project

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If you are a lucky maybe your job is also your passion. And if you are very passionate about your job, you will look for a way to learn more, a day after the other, about your job, your work, your passion. And more, if you are very lucky you can share your passion with other fellow guys around the world.

And this is the story of a guy who found a way to learn more about the world and job he loved, and ended up creating a blog where, among other things, he asks people why they love what he loves…Sound!

After Tim Prebble, Andrew Spitz, Miguel Isaza, we asked a few questions to Hugo Verweij -  the man behind the blog Everyday Listening – about his sonic inspirations. Here you are…

Hugo Verweij at work

Hugo Verweij at work

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Keep an ear on – forum for acoustic ecology symposium

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The 2011 edition of the International Soundscape Symposium will take place in May in the wonderful frame of Tempo Reale @Villa Strozzi, Florence. The symposium will be held by Tempo Reale and the Forum Klanglandschaft together with the contemporary art centre EX3. The call is open for soundart works and scientific papers and the deadline is 30th of October. The complete call is downloadable on the Tempo Reale website.

Call from ((audience))

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Conceived in 2006, ((audience)) is an unprecedented project that explores the cinema as a 21st century concert hall. It is dedicated to the advancement of aural arts by providing wide distribution and new contexts for works by emerging and established sound artists and composers.

This year Festival is calling for 5.1 sound works to be performed in dark with a full 5.1 cinenma system during a 2 h 1/2 “sound film”. This “cinema in the dark” program will tour to partnering organization from Dehli to Montreal.

The deadline for the sumbission of the multichannel sound works is September, the 5th. Submission are encouraged either by sound artists and composers and by sound designers, foley artistis, sound engineers.

Cinesonika call for works and papers

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The first Cinesonika Festival, held by the Simon Fraser University of Interactive Arts&Technology of Surrey, Canada, is calling for works in the field of sound design and sonification for the moving image.

The theme of this international film and video festival is to celebrate the soundtrack. Usually in cinema festivals there is a fixation on movie stars, or captivating imagery, or the literary qualities of screenplays, or the abstract concepts of film theory. Sound tends to be relatively unvalorized in moving-image making. The intent of the festival is to give attention to innovative work in the creation of film and video soundtracks, and to give due credit to the importance of audio in audiovisual media. This first annual festival will showcase international works of film and video with fascinating soundtracks, idiosyncratic sound design, eclectic scoring and innovative approaches to the sound-image relationship.

Deadline is the 1st of September for your audiovisual works, and the 31st of July for your papers’ abstract. The full paper deadline is set by the 15th of September.

Electronic Music Degree at the Conservatorio of Bologna

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The 31st of July is the final deadline for applying to the Electronic Music first degree at the Conservatorio of Bologna. The course is headed by the composer Lelio Camilleri and Francesco Giomi, head of Tempo Reale, Florence. The three year course is organised along four main subjects: electroacoustic composition, history and analisys of electroacoustic music, sound and image, DSP and sound diffusion techniques. For more info, contact Lelio Camilleri at info@leliocamilleri.it or visit the Conservatorio website.

Audiovisiva 6.0, Milan, Italy

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The international festival will take place in Milan (Italy) from the 27th to th 29th of May. Take a look in particular to the live performance and sound installation Audioscan, a soundscape project by Giorgio Sancristoforo, dedicated to the city of Milan and produced by Agon. And do not miss The Books on Friday 28.

Time Design with Albert Mayr

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On Tuesday the 18th at 8 p.m. @ Neon Campobase, via Zanardi 2/5 Bologna (Italy), the electroacoustic music guru and soundscape researcher Albert Mayr will present his recent works on his non orthodox concept of time design. We do not have the time we are in the time and The roundtable will involve the public in a collective performance which aims to unveil our obsessive relationship with time in the contemporary society. The moderator of this event is Silvia Bordini, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.

Partners: Neon Campobase, Concrete19.10, 451frammentisonori.

Free admittance.